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Posteritatis

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8. Anthropology's particularly sensitive because of all the pseudoscience flying around

Reply to zazen (Reply #3)

Thu May 9, 2013, 06:21 PM

May 2013

I've got a couple friends in archaeology who try not to mention what they actually do around strangers much, because they start getting inundated with questions that you'd have to be a von Daniken fan to ask in the first place, stuff like that.

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Did humans come from the seas instead of the trees ? [View all] dipsydoodle May 2013 OP

I remember this debate years ago Ichingcarpenter May 2013 #1

I recall reading that whales did the opposite dipsydoodle May 2013 #2

why do anthropologists have such paradigm anxiety? zazen May 2013 #3

Ill still go with the alien theory. darkangel218 May 2013 #6

Anthropology's particularly sensitive because of all the pseudoscience flying around Posteritatis May 2013 #8

So we are fishies? :p darkangel218 May 2013 #4

The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (AAH); greiner3 May 2013 #5

Life is too short to stress over things we may never understand. darkangel218 May 2013 #7

Hmmmp! I (for one) did not come from some damn trout. My ancestor was a god-fearing ape. BlueJazz May 2013 #9